b'Our work with individuals Everyone deserves access to the tools and support they needto live their best life.Understanding the pastWe support individuals to: Overcome mental health challenges Our Heritage Service team continued their vitalRecover from alcohol and other drug use work to help people understand their past. Former employees of the Methodist Homes for Children,Access the essentials through our(renamed Orana Peace Memorial Homes for emergency relief services Children), took many photographs of the childrenBuild the skills and confidence needed over that period. We spent the past year digitising to secure meaningful employment over 19,200 of these old photos to make themGet their finances back on track more accessible, finally completing the project Understand their past through in April 2022.our Heritage Service. One of the roles of the Heritage Service is to No matter what age, ability or stage of life,manage the records for approximately 30,000 were here for people to help them overcomechildren who lived in out-of-home care and who challenges and build a brighter future. were affected by adoption. One of the greatest challenges can be locating records that have come from over 20 different services or organisations Supporting all abilities and where records were poorly archived or destroyed. In one case it took us several years to During the past year we operated our Disabilitylocate records from an agency called Canterbury Day Program in the Wimmera region wheneverFamily Centre. We knew records had been created COVID-19 restrictions eased. When day programsbecause the Government Child Welfare records couldnt go ahead, our employees connectedcontained information from this agency. We first with participants on the phone and deliveredbegan our search for these records in June 2019 activity packs. Our consumers were some of theand finally located them in December 2021.most vulnerable during COVID-19 lockdowns andThe Heritage Service team have also been working continuing this service meant that people wereon a project to gather photographs taken by former able to remain connected and receive essentialtrainee mothercraft nurses from the Presbyterian support. Now lockdowns have ended, the dayand Methodist Babies Homes. Over 3000 new program team have looked at other ways tophotographs have been added to our collection and expand social activities for participants. The teamthese were mainly received at gatherings held over linked in with Laneway Caf to run a 2022 Pancakeseveral years. We had our final gathering for the Day event. Consumers helped to cook, packagewomen who had worked at the Methodist Babies and deliver pancakes to businesses in the HorshamHome in March 2022. We are very grateful to these CBD and raised nearly $900 for the program. women, aged in their 70s and 80s, with some of them travelling from Traralgon and Bendigo to help us record the information from the photos they had kept for over 50 years.Find out more24 Uniting Vic.Tas Annual Report 2021-2022'